IBM z/OS V2R2: Security

By Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Wilson de Figueiredo & Paul Robert Hering

IBM z/OS V2R2: Security - Keith Winnard, Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr, Wilson de Figueiredo & Paul Robert Hering
  • Release Date: 2015-12-17
  • Genre: Computers

Description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you to become familiar with the technical changes that were introduced to the security areas with IBM z/OS® V2R2.
The following chapters are included:

- Chapter 1, "RACF updates" on page 1: In this chapter, we describe the read-only auditor attribute, password security enhancements, RACDCERT (granular certificate administration), UNIX search authority, and RACF Remote sharing facility (RRSF).

- Chapter 2, "LDAP updates" on page 13: In this chapter, we describe the activity log enhancements, compatibility level upgrade without LDAP outage, dynamic group performance enhancements, and replication of password policy attributes from a read-only replica.

- Chapter 3, "PKI updates" on page 21: In this chapter, we describe the Network Authentication Service (KERBEROS) PKINIT, PKI nxm authorization, PKI OCSP enhancement, and RACDCERT (granular certificate administration)

- Chapter 4, "z/OS UNIX search and file execution authority" on page 27: z/OS UNIX search authority, z/OS UNIX file execution, Examples for exploiting the new functions

This book is one of a series of IBM Redbooks that take a modular approach to providing information about the updates that are included with z/OS V2R2. This approach has the following goals:

- Provide modular content
- Group the technical changes into a topic
- Provide a more streamlined way of finding relevant information that is based on the topic

We hope you find this approach useful and we welcome your feedback.